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Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Complexity of Consciousness

The unity of consciousness presents the challenge of understanding why we perceive one integrated world when we wake up, as a lack of this unity can indicate psychiatric issues. Additionally, the concept of the present moment is not just a multimodal experience but also a temporal one, always existing in the 'now'. Furthermore, the subjective nature of consciousness poses the greatest challenge in understanding its uniqueness as a target for scientific inquiry.

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